Recap last lecture

• an abundance of data sources 📃
  • often PDF, few datasets
• creating your own dataset 🪛
  • convert PDF to .txt
• questions regarding the 2nd assignment?

Outline

• Get ready for the mini-project 📝
• Curate data on SwissDox 📰
• Perform media analysis with Pandas 🐼

Mini-project

Present your project on 23 May 2025

• analyze any collection of text documents

  • compare historically

  • compare between actors

• form groups of 2-3 people

• requirements

  • apply quantitative measures on multiple documents
  • interpret and present results in class
  • share executable script

❗ share your project idea here by 1 May 2025

Optional seminar paper

• writing a seminar paper (6 ECTS)
• get in touch to discuss your idea

Let’s start with real data-science ✨